US warships pass through the Taiwan Strait… China responds to the dispatch of the’Shandong Carrier Corps’

– Against the backdrop of the US-China confrontation, military tensions in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait rose, the Chinese army dispatched the first Korean carrier squadron led by Shandong, the first domestic aircraft carrier, to confront the passing of the US Aegis destroyer through the Taiwan Strait.

Chinese Navy spokesman Liu Wen-seong announced on the 21st that the Shandong Carrier Corps had passed the Taiwan Strait from north to south on the previous day to conduct regular deep-sea maneuvering training in the South China Sea, according to Grooming Mang and Xinhua Mang. .

The Shandong Carrier Corps consisted of a Shandong ship and four warships, and on the 17th it departed from Dalian Port in Liaoning Province and moved southward.

The Chinese Navy warned that the Shandong carrier squad’s maneuvering training in the South China Sea was scheduled on an annual schedule, and warned, “We will continue to carry out the same activities according to the need for training in the future.” The Taiwan Ministry of Defense warned that Chinese carrier Shandong ships, destroyers, and frigates were used in Taiwan. He confirmed that he had passed through the strait and entered the South China Sea, and mobilized the Navy and Air Force to track and monitor the entire process, and prepared for abnormal behavior.

It is said that the Ministry of Defense dispatched six warships and eight military aircraft to closely monitor the trends of the Shandong Carrier Corps.

Shandong has been evaluated as having significantly improved its operational capabilities, such as smoothly taking off and landing aircraft and performing operational missions using real weapons in the first year of service.

Earlier on the 19th, the Eastern Front of the Chinese Army, which has jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, said through an official Weibo, “The US Navy’s Aegis missile destroyer Mustin entered the Taiwan Strait on the evening of the 18th and mobilized naval and air force forces to track and monitor it.”

“Recently, US warships frequently passed through the Taiwan Strait, encouraging the market,” the Eastern Front criticized. “It created unrest in the peace of the Taiwan Strait, agitated the independent and independent forces of Taiwan, and seriously damaged peace and stability in the region.”


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